A good Christian man

So Tom Delay just was indicted on charges of conspiracy related to this campaign finance thingy (good choice of words huh?) and on Fox this guy was talking about how trumped up the charges were, that he would never get convicted and what a great Christian man that Tom Delay was as if that meant it was not possible for him to do this act and I realized that, that seems to be the line everyone uses. "But he's a good Christian man!"

I don't know anything about Tom Delay and I know that Christians aren't perfect so he could very well be a good Christian and a conspirator...er...I guess..but that doesn't absolve him of consequences if he did in fact commit this crime!!! We're just forgiven, not freed from the punishment! I'm getting really tired of good Christian men in all political arenas who get away with or have a wrong dismissed based on the fact that they go to church and read the bible!!! Good Christian men of the bible were harshly punished for their sins; Moses was forbidden from the promise land that he had personally led his people to (and what he did amounts to little more than a copyright violation in today's terms), David's firstborn son was killed (adultery and murder do usually carry high prices, but that's still pretty harsh), and look at what happened to the Israelites when they worshiped a golden calf - the were swallowed by the earth!! Yes, these are all Old Testament examples, and Jesus forgave people and protected them from Jewish law (e.g. the adulterer) however, let's stop parading good WASP males around like they are saints after they've sinned. After all, we know who the saints really are, the women who put up with them.